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Cinnabon Caramel Pecanbons

Quick Quiz

Which of the following will give you about 900 calories and two-thirds of a day's artery clogging fat?

A Big Mac plus a small Chocolate Milk Shake at McDonald's.

A Denny's Original Grand Slam breakfast.

A Cinnabon Caramel Pecanbon.

They all do!

Totally Belly Busting

Surprised that a cinnamon roll can pack as much fat (41 grams) and as many calories as an entire meal...plus 12 teaspoons (48 grams) of sugar? That's what an independent lab reported when it analyzed samples of Cinnabon's new Caramel Pecanbons at malls in Kansas City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

How can a cinnamon bun be so bad? To start with, it is huge. Each one weighs in at half a pound. That is at least three times the size of similar pastries sold by Pepperidge Farm and Sara Lee.

The Pecanbon is so bad that it makes the original Cinnabon look good at 670 calories and 34 grams of fat (14 of them belly-busting, artery-clogging fat grams), truly not good at all.

Home Made is Best

Brand name doughnuts, cinnamon rolls and cakes add a high amount of saturated fat to your diet. It is best to make them yourself and put lower fat ingredients in them. Having said that, following is a recipe you can try.